Eventually they find living male Formics in one of the piloting helms.

This is difficult at first, because as a queen she never needed words to communicate- the Formics instantly understood her.

"The human race faces an enemy almost as terrible, in his own way, as the Formics ever were.

The fight we're preparing for is to repel invading Formics, not to invade their solar system.

Mazer Rackham, the only man ever to defeat the Formics, takes on a new enemy.

In the process of finding a location for new settlement, Ender stumbles upon what seems to be the equivalent of a note from the Formics.

His existence was called for by a program aiming at producing commanders for humanity's war against the Formics, or "Buggers".

As soon as the battle was over, Earth put together a fleet to send to the Formics home worlds to end the conflict once and for all.

One day Alessandra's seemingly irresponsible mother comes home and announces that they will be colonizing one of the former Formics worlds.

Formics (Ender's Game)

Ender Wiggin may be in space learning to fight Formics, but his older siblings Peter and Valentine are saving the world back on Earth.

Unfortunately, one of them detonates early, drawing the attention of the Formics, who at first engage the humans wearing space suits, but subsequently attack without any protection.

The term "bugger" is a pejorative one used by humans in expressing their fear of the unknown Formics, who are to them the very embodiment of terror.

He was getting these strategic insights-and they were good ones-from Petra, who was one of the nine who were chosen to save humanity from the Formics.

"Mazer in Prison" is the story of Mazer Rackham, the hero who saved earth in the second Formics invasion.

Despite Congressional law forbidding the donation of technology to less advanced life forms, the human scientists on Lusitania (and, later, the revived Formics) agreed to help them spread out.

The story describes the character Sel Menach, a fighter pilot in the Formic war, xenobiologist, and eventually the governor of one of the former Formics worlds.

Ender is offered the Governorship of the first human colony to be planted on one of the Formics' former worlds, a planet that will eventually become known as Shakespeare.

Eros was formerly an outpost for the aliens known as Formics who installed artificial gravity but was taken over by humans and a Command School was built there.

He has taken the role of a Speaker for the Dead, keeping his identity as the "Ender the Xenocide", who orchestrated the victory over the Formics, a secret.

That Bean's abilities were a key part of our victory over the Formics, so it must have been God's will that brought him into existence at the time we needed him.

A little more independent and a little less obedient than the individual Formics, of course, but that's how a species comes to dominate a world the way we did, and they did.

The series is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers" but more formally as "Formics."

Between being ostracized by his fellow cadets and having troubling dreams about Formics, Ender is soon ready to quit the school, but Graff encourages him through communications sent from Valentine.

The Formics in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind).

And above all, he wanted to know about the buggers.

I know how strong those buggers are for their size.

You remember when those little buggers used to be mean?

I don't see why those buggers should get away with it.

Those poor old buggers couldn't have known what hit them.

There were no books to read - the buggers never needed them.

Still, I almost felt sorry for the little buggers down below.

"How many of the buggers will be waiting for us?"

They'd seen through the buggers in the end, of course, but it had been a close thing.

You had to have some of the buggers around, there was no getting away from it.

It was the buggers who looked human all the time that were the problem.

He would have more of the buggers before they finished him off!

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

The poor little buggers are going to be in enough trouble as it is.

The only thing those buggers do better than music is shoot.

"Has anyone offered to pay me to fight the buggers?"

Sometimes mothers actually wanted you to hold the little buggers.

How the buggers ran up the walls he would never know.

Poor little buggers are going to dream about that for weeks.

We can't afford to run into one or more of those buggers right now!

"The little buggers are going to jump off me and all over your things."

It's coming to something, I hope them buggers don't get in.

No more effort to talk with the buggers, to communicate.

The queen only has to be present to have little baby buggers.

We've known each other too long to start playing silly buggers.

One way or another, the bugger war is about to be over.

I think the old bugger knew what he was doing.

No, but I thought you seemed to be a long while getting the bugger out.

Right now, he's about the only bugger I think is in the clear.

You remember when those little buggers used to be mean?

When she got her hands on the bugger, that was.

Maybe he had simply learned to think like a bugger.

Is he trying to understand the way the Buggers think?

And above all, he wanted to know about the buggers.

It's bugger all to do with me but my interest is getting the in.

The poor bugger did not know how to talk any other way.

"You mean before or after the final war against the Buggers?"

When the Buggers come again, they're going to make things go wrong.

"Turn the bugger over and have a look you know where."

I know how strong those buggers are for their size.

Work's a bugger, but it does take your mind off other things.

No wonder the bugger had left the car down the road.

They'd seen through the buggers in the end, of course, but it had been a close thing.

Well, I'm the bugger who can tell you about it.

They had bugger all to do, so why train them?

There were no books to read - the buggers never needed them.

You had to have some of the buggers around, there was no getting away from it.

It was the buggers who looked human all the time that were the problem.

He would have more of the buggers before they finished him off!

If they see me there, no one gives a bugger.